37-60 83rd Street

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1911
Charles Peck designs 37-60 83rd Street in a row of ten neo-classical brick houses
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The Charles E. Currier Co. Inc. built this house in 1911 to Charles Peck's design, as one of a row of ten on the west side of 83rd Street; eight still stand. The houses alternate in pairs, one type with a three-sided brick bay on the first story and the other with a three-sided oriel trimmed with engaged colonnettes on the second. Stone lintels and modillioned cornices run along the whole group.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
The 83rd Street row shows how Jackson Heights might have looked without Queensboro's apartments
The landmarks commission counts these two-story-and-basement houses near Roosevelt Avenue as the earliest buildings still standing in the Jackson Heights Historic District. They came before any of the Queensboro Corporation's planning experiments and follow the ordinary pre-World War I New York pattern of a continuous row with plain neo-classical detail. The report presents them as a picture of the neighborhood Jackson Heights could have become if Queensboro had not moved on to building apartments.
“These houses are an illustration of what the area might have looked like had Queensboro not shifted its efforts to apartment building construction.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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